probably a signal to pull back & let it go. It was never my intention to attack you or your design, or to make you feel like you were being attacked. I will say in my defense that proposing alternatives is not anything like attacking tradition or your design. I'm not trying to tear anything down, merely include alternatives. But this whole argument has gotten pretty far off topic & out of hand, I think. Best to just drop it.

And in my defense, I can only say that only the "philospher's stone" of role-playing games could contain all alternatives. Hence the suggestion of alternatives was read as an attack.